What's the Use of Art? - Asian Visual and Material Culture in Context

Klappentext Post-Enlightenment notions of culture, which have been naturalized in the West for centuries, require that art be autonomously universal, and devoid of any practical purpose. This volume seeks to complicate this understanding of art by examining art objects from across Asia with attention to their functional, ritual, and everyday contexts. Zusammenfassung Post-Enlightenment notions of culture! which have been naturalized in the West for centuries! require that art be autonomously universal! and devoid of any practical purpose. This volume seeks to complicate this understanding of art by examining art objects from across Asia with attention to their functional! ritual! and everyday contexts.

Product details

• Authors: Jan (EDT)/ Pitelka Mrazek
• Assisted by: Jan Mrazek (Editor), Morgan Pitelka (Editor)
• Publisher: University of hawaii press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2007
• EAN: 9780824830632
• ISBN: 978-0-8248-3063-2
• No. of pages: 313
• Dimensions: 171 mm x 254 mm x 38 mm
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries